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Standalone mode (no SEO plugin)

What it is

When no SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress or AIOSEO) is active, AISA becomes your SEO layer. It emits exactly one <title> and one <meta name="description"> from the AISA SEO block fields, with variables (such as %%title%%) resolved and rotation applied if Extended SEO & Rotation is enabled.

Standalone mode also handles the rest of what a SEO plugin would do:

  • Canonical — AISA takes control of the canonical URL (removing WordPress core's rel_canonical to avoid duplicates), with a per-post override field.
  • Robots — per-post noindex/nofollow merged into the single core <meta name="robots">, so no duplicate robots tag.
  • Open Graph & Twitter — social tags built once in the head, with image width/height and alt, default site image and per-post image modes.
  • Schema (JSON-LD) — Organization / Person / LocalBusiness (with your social profiles via sameAs), WebSite with search action, optional SoftwareApplication, BreadcrumbList on inner pages/archives, and BlogPosting (headline, author, datePublished/dateModified) on posts for E-E-A-T.
  • Sitemap & IndexNow — the native WordPress sitemap enhanced with lastmod, plus IndexNow and a custom robots.txt appender.

Important: all of this is active only in Standalone mode. The moment an SEO plugin is active, AISA suppresses its own head output and writes into that plugin instead — so you never get duplicate tags.

Questions people ask

Is Standalone mode a downgrade? No. You get a single clean set of meta tags, canonical, robots, social tags and rich JSON-LD schema with zero configuration — the same fields and AI generation as with a SEO plugin.

What if I install Yoast later? AISA detects it, stops emitting its own tags, and starts writing the SEO into Yoast. Your AISA field values remain as a fallback source.

Does Standalone emit the social/OG image? Yes — a site-wide default plus per-post image (featured, manual or default mode), with og:image width, height and alt.

Related

  • SEO-plugin adapters: Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO
  • Sitemap, IndexNow, custom robots.txt and redirects
  • Two meta descriptions in the page

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